According to reporter Ian Hoffman there will be a delay in the California voting machine inspections and tests. Los Angeles County is regarded as a vendor by the state because its voting system is unique and custom-made. The county and several vendors are concerned about the extent of the review that will be accomplished. According to the article the vendors are concerned about the scope of testing on security. Only Sequoia has turned over their system to the state but the rest are sure to follow suit. It would look bad for them if they just walked away from this project and the state....

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H.R. 811 got a lot better in committee; almost all of the loopholes were taken out. That is so cool.

While it's still theoretically possible for DREs to be used under the H.R.811 regime, they will be *so* much more expensive that hopefully very few places will consider them. Notably, the requirement that paper ballots be available for all voters who ask for them will destroy the "don't need to print ballots therefore cheaper" claim. The absolute requirement that the machine allow voters to correct any errors made by the machine should prevent all current systems ("behind glass" paper trails) from qualifying.

The only hole I see is that 80% number: no audits if the machines say 80% victory. No serious election has been won by that much in a long time (the biggest blowouts I've ever seen, such as Hillary's Senate primary, were less than that); hopefully if someone steals an election that way, it will be obvious enough to force recounts *politically*.

While source code disclosure is needed, source code disclosure will not fix the problems with e-voting, nor will it prevent the systems from being gamed to the max. That's because current e-voting systems were not designed with security in mind.

And even Open Source cannot solve the fatal flaws in e-voting.

And just as source code disclosure has already been deliberately thrown out of the campanion bill, hr 811, so it will also be thrown out of s 559... thus making this particular argument moot.